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Frs. 195,000., and the early Monet "Pont de Bois" Frs. 130,000.

It is difficult indeed for me to understand why I was not posted about the auction at the time, and the only reason I can find is the confusion and financial upheval which followed in the wake of the crash. Furthermore no reference to the auction was made in the London catalogue of 1932, nor by Dr. Frankfurter and Paul Hosenberg, who, I believe, wrote the catalogue of the 1941 Renoir exhibition in New York. It is very remarkable to think that had it not been for the fact that you looked up that reference to "Formes" of 1920 - a year which I didn't have here - we would not have learned that the picture had been in an auction.

With best personal regards to you and Mr. Milliken,

Yours very sincerely,

(Germain Séligmann)


Henry Sayles Francis, Esq.,
Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, Ohio.